Hi guys, as my Skaven army is finally complete (of course an army is never complete, but for the time being I've painted everything I wanted). I thought it would be nice to share some army shots with you. A Fantasy army all ranked up always looks impressive, maybe because everything is so neatly arranged thanks to the movement trays. So click "more after the jump" for more pictures and a little retrospective about painting this army.

All in all, this army kept my busy for about two years. Of course, I painted some smaller projects for my other armies in between, but most of the time I was painting rat tails. What did I hate the most? Painting rat tails. Seriously, all those segments you have to highlight individually, it's a nightmare...

My idea was to use a lot of muted colours for this army, so that the bright green warpstone can really pop out. I acchieved that, but looking back I would have liked to add more vibrant colours, it just is more of my style. By the way, this is the first army I've completely blogged - check out the Skaven tag on the right or click here and browse through all the 194 posts - it starts with a humble test model and ends with this 2500 pts army with over 170 models.

Allright, every serious Skaven player would actually have the double amount of bodies on the table but then I would have really lost my sanity. Painting a Fantasy army is a hard task, as you usually have a lot more models than in 40k. A serious challenge even for an experienced hobbyist like me. I'd never advise a newbie to start Fantasy. The chance of actually finishing a decent size army, even with just basic washing and drybrushing techniques, before reaching hobby exhaustion, is very small.

I've still got some Skaven models laying around. The Games Day Warlord and an Engineer and Rat Ogre from Island of Blood for example. But for now, I'm going to enjoy painting some other stuff. There will be additions to my Eldar and Ultramarines, as well as some Escher gangers and there is also my Dark Eldar megaforce. But I'll definately come back to my Skaven at some point. Apart from the models I already own, I'd like to see GW come out with a proper new Rat Ogres kit, would love to have a 3x2 unit of those, also I'd like to see some new jezzails and poisoned wind globadiers. Future talk, of course.

So what do you think? Two years of hard hobby lavour created this, what's your opinion? Have you also been through a long project recently? Tell me in the comments!

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11 comments:

Very Nice! I remember my dad painted up a huge skaven army twice the size of yours as a commission. It took him 2 and a half years to complete it and when the guy that was using it went for lunch during a game, he came back and it had all been stolen, cases, all the figures, codex. Even the army list that he was using for that day. Just shows you how careful you need to be. Back to yours though. They are very nice. I wish I had the patience to paint up an army to that standard. :)

Malifaux Crews, HoMachine forces and small 40k forces is the most i can wind myself up to. Other then that it is single miniatures that help me grow as a painter, there is simply too many wonderfull miniature companies out there atm.

The biggest project i have going atm is a warhound titan that i am struggling to finish, it just is not speaking to me atm.

Large models of anime babes and semi nude gals seem to get me going though and i have done a fair share of these lately.

I applaud you. I know what a B*tch it can be to get this army finally done, as I have done so myself. Not only the effort of getting them done deserve applause, but doing them in such a standard is even more deserving of awe! I wish you a lot of playing fun with it - as a fully painted army always does - and that you may gradualy add to the army and one day take a look and find out you have over twice as much all of a sudden :)Cheers!

I'm both happy and sad. I'm happy to see you complete an army. It's a rare sight in this hobby to see armies completed to such a high standard, so you deserve all the kudos for that. I feel sad because it's an end to a regular slice of Warhammer Fantasy painting on Tale of Painters.

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